Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine has been killed by a bomb blast, while he was visiting the Separ cafe in the capital of Donetsk.

Later a lawmaker of the People’s Council of the DPRconfirmed reports about the death of DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko in an explosion in downtown Donetsk.

The DPR Finance minister Timofeev was also wounded in the terrorist attack. Another blast occurred earlier on Friday in a restaurant several hundred meters from the residence of DPR head Alexander Zakharchenko.

Zakharchenkojoined the Donetsk militiafollowing a coup in Kiev in 2014 and was elected as leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic in November 2014.

The Kiev junta, led Nazi strongman and dictator Victor Porochenko, has never respected the peace agreements, while his puppet masters assassinated all of his opponents in Ukraine.

Since the USA plotted the Kiev coup d’etat, NATO supported the military invasion in Ukraine, while the IMF and Western banks confiscated all the country’s assets in order to block the Russian gas supplies to Europe.